this lot and plans
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shallownessAgents of SHIELD 5.8 Best Laid Plans
Overall, an okay episode, bar some nice moments and the zero-gravity fight. Some of it was because the characters were taking in the previous episode’s ramifications, and it was quite literally about the team in the Zephyr getting back to the lifeship.
Where Kasius decided he was going to be a god. I noticed something odd about his sibilants that I hadn’t noticed before. Also, one of the writers remembered bringing Coulson back to life and decided to resurrect Tess – given something of a zombie look.
We were left waiting for Sinara to turn up on the Zephyr and make life more difficult for them. Enoc was tiresome.
Melinda, processing what Robin had told her, was mostly struck by the idea of her being a mother. Phil, who lurves her and remembered her pre-Bahrain also, was very affirmative, but although I snickered at Daisy weighing in, the show has used those two as her real parental figures for seasons.
Still, Melinda May is a better tiger/any kind of mom than Mack – that comparison was definitely there, and he was quite bullheaded and so, in her way, was Yo-Yo, and young Flint wanted to fight and kill kreepers. Shut up, Flint. You’re only needed for the team to rebuild the monolith and get back and…destroy this timeline.
I liked the moment where Fitz got confirmation that they were in a time loop, as introduced last week, but Simmons was the one who saw the good side of it. <3
There’s zero tension over What Deke Will Do, because Daisy is the hero of the show. I enjoyed his low level of aptitude while Mere Agent Daisy Johnson fought with Sinara. Don’t get me wrong, he was the extra factor to beat Sinara, but he was very much the civilian in the room. The zero-gravity aspects were cool, but so was the fighting in close combat. The shift to slo-mo at various points in the episode didn’t work, because I associate that with Yo-Yo’s powers, and expect her to turn up instead of thinking it cool, which I suppose was the intention.
The Lifeship humans all working together according to a secret plan while Mack and Yo-Yo waited Kasius’s monologuing out was a satisfying comeuppance, although the second Kasius recognised Yo-Yo, I expected the Kree to be prepared for her power. And now he has a produced a seer of his own too, which should probably be younger than Robin for extra creepiness.
Or kreepiness if you will.
Overall, an okay episode, bar some nice moments and the zero-gravity fight. Some of it was because the characters were taking in the previous episode’s ramifications, and it was quite literally about the team in the Zephyr getting back to the lifeship.
Where Kasius decided he was going to be a god. I noticed something odd about his sibilants that I hadn’t noticed before. Also, one of the writers remembered bringing Coulson back to life and decided to resurrect Tess – given something of a zombie look.
We were left waiting for Sinara to turn up on the Zephyr and make life more difficult for them. Enoc was tiresome.
Melinda, processing what Robin had told her, was mostly struck by the idea of her being a mother. Phil, who lurves her and remembered her pre-Bahrain also, was very affirmative, but although I snickered at Daisy weighing in, the show has used those two as her real parental figures for seasons.
Still, Melinda May is a better tiger/any kind of mom than Mack – that comparison was definitely there, and he was quite bullheaded and so, in her way, was Yo-Yo, and young Flint wanted to fight and kill kreepers. Shut up, Flint. You’re only needed for the team to rebuild the monolith and get back and…destroy this timeline.
I liked the moment where Fitz got confirmation that they were in a time loop, as introduced last week, but Simmons was the one who saw the good side of it. <3
There’s zero tension over What Deke Will Do, because Daisy is the hero of the show. I enjoyed his low level of aptitude while Mere Agent Daisy Johnson fought with Sinara. Don’t get me wrong, he was the extra factor to beat Sinara, but he was very much the civilian in the room. The zero-gravity aspects were cool, but so was the fighting in close combat. The shift to slo-mo at various points in the episode didn’t work, because I associate that with Yo-Yo’s powers, and expect her to turn up instead of thinking it cool, which I suppose was the intention.
The Lifeship humans all working together according to a secret plan while Mack and Yo-Yo waited Kasius’s monologuing out was a satisfying comeuppance, although the second Kasius recognised Yo-Yo, I expected the Kree to be prepared for her power. And now he has a produced a seer of his own too, which should probably be younger than Robin for extra creepiness.
Or kreepiness if you will.
